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1. Truth itself is an invention of the human mind to try and sort physical observations / claims about the external world into two neat buckets. 2. Time as a l
by voxl 2y ago
1. Truth itself is an invention of the human mind to try and sort physical observations / claims about the external world into two neat buckets.
2. Time as a linear description is the same, a way of sorting the physical world into a series of events.
Both have generalizations. Topos Theory generalizes Set Theory with different notions of what is "true." There are several variations on temporal logic with Linear Temporal Logic being only one such idea.
With all that in mind, your thought experiment does not cause any issues because you can say that the framework for reasoning about the example is _itself_ the problem. Hence, it fails as a counterexample for our inability to potentially understand reality without flaw.
- bschmidt1 2y ago> It fails as a counterexample for our inability to potentially understand reality without flaw In both comments I assert that phenomena cannot be wholly modeled (or replicated). The gist is that descriptions and replicas are always lossy to some extent. The second comment just expands on why, relating it ultimately to physical limitations (features) of physical reality. You can get uncannily precise and predictive with some knowledge - engineering, manufacturing, math - that any lossiness is truly negligible. Especially the smaller the scope and more "medium sized" the object or idea in question. But compounded, and at extreme scales, the incompleteness of our understanding of reality shows. I agree with your 1 & 2.